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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

1885 - 1968

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Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German general and war criminal during World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1944. After the war, Falkenhorst was tried by a joint British-Norwegian military tribunal for war crimes. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst has received more than 394,309 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Nikolaus von Falkenhorst is the 387th most popular military personnel (up from 410th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 204th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German general in the Second World War. He was most famous for his role in the invasion of Norway in 1940.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 387 out of 2,058. Before him are Gustav Wagner, Götz von Berlichingen, Cao Ren, John Franklin, Otto von Below, and Lazare Hoche. After him are David Elazar, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Vasily Sokolovsky, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Bronislav Kaminski, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 42. Before him are Hugo Sperrle, Luigi Russolo, Kato Svanidze, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Giacomo Matteotti, and Eduard Künneke. After him are Tamara Karsavina, Will Durant, Romano Guardini, Clementine Churchill, Christian Wirth, and Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 34. Before him are Neal Cassady, Alice Guy-Blaché, Kirill Meretskov, Alexandre Kojève, Giovanni Messe, and Vittorio Pozzo. After him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Lucio Fontana, Romano Guardini, Arnold Zweig, Charles Chaplin Jr., and Josef Harpe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 202 out of 1,694. Before him are Mieszko II Lambert (990), Alice Miller (1923), Otto von Below (1857), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), and Cymburgis of Masovia (1394). After him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Henry II the Pious (1196), B. Traven (1882), Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 21. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Rochus Misch (1917), Hermann Balck (1893), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), and Otto von Below (1857). After him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), and Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878).

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